What the camera did detect was the Amersfoort man himself as he lays gauze in front of the entrance to the castle. He wanted to see if there was life in the castle. “It was a fox hole,” he says in court today. “The fox that was in it left at the end of last year and now there is no life left in it. When I heard there were badgers, I wanted to see if they were there.”
70-year-old Amersfoorter sentenced for destroying a badger sett: ‘I am not an animal hater’
